"Blue Cat was one of those mixed bag labels consisting mainly of productions by Coxsone Dodd, Joe Gibbs, Bunny Lee and Harry J, and these days they're as rare as hens' teeth...
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-I've Got Your Number/Hot Shot
Dermott Lynch
Blue Cat BS 101 (1968)
produced by Charles Ross
Great rock steady number also to be found on WIRL's Club Rock Steady compilation.
-Girls Like Dirt/ She Is Leaving
Slim Smi
th & The Uniques / Glen Adams
Blue Cat BB 126 (August 1968)
produced by Bunny Lee
One of Slim's best, notable for it's relatively long bridge. The B side is in fact believed to be by Alva Lewis, later of The Upsetters.
-Nana / I may never See my Baby
The Slickers / Martin Riley
Blue Cat BS 134
produced by Eric Barnet / Bunny Lee
With George Agard on vocals, this was one of Blue Cat's biggest sellers and went some way towards crossing over to the white market in the UK. Also on volume one of Trojan's The Trojan Story triple album (TALL 100).
-Loving Reggae / Musical Beat
The Maytones / Roy Samuel
Blue Cat BS 152 (February 1969)
produced by Alvin Ranglin
A fast one from The Maytones, which typified their driving vocals during the reggae era. Nicely tucked away on Trojan's Reggae Flight 404 compilation on Ranglin-produced material (TBL 115).
-Dig it up / This Life Make Me (Wonder)
The Sparkers / Delroy Wilson
Blue Cat BS 155 (April 1969)
produced by George Regent
This was the vocal to Ranfold Williams' Code It On BS 154B (the flip to The Slickers' Grying Pan). Nice B side too.
-2,000 Tons Of T.N.T / Botheration
The GG Rhythm Section / The Maytones
Blue Cat BS 165 (June 1969)
produced by Vernon Buckley / Alvin Ranglin
Largely a flute instrumental with vocal interjections, this was actually by Vernon Buckley, lead singer of The Maytones.
